Pros And Cons Of Lowering The Drinking Age

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In America, on a person’s 18th birthday, not only does that person turn another year older, but they also become a legal adult. Becoming an adult is a big thing, you can vote, be drafted into the military, enlist in the military, serve on a jury, buy a lottery ticket, gamble, donate blood, and many, many other things. One thing that doesn’t make sense about turning 18 in the United States is that you can not legally purchase or ingest any alcohol. I am going to talk about why lowering the drinking age could help eliminate binge drinking, why increasing the drinking age hasn’t made a substantial difference, and what lowering the drinking age would do. Each state in the United States use to be able to determine their drinking age on their own terms. Although, in July of 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed a Minimum Drinking Age Act. This act says that the minimum drinking age in the United States must be 21. Reagan also said that if any of the states did not obey this act they would face a reduction in highway funds under the Federal Highway Aid Act, not getting money to fund road constructions and highway funds. Most teenagers younger than 16 have already admitted to binge drinking. Binge drinking…show more content…Some say that lowering the drinking age would create more problems. Many college presidents are in favor of keeping the minimum drinking age at 21. Having a uniform national drinking age has saved lives by removing the incentive for underage drinkers to travel to nearby states with a lower age limit to consume alcohol, this makes the drive home after a night of drinking easier for people above the age to 21. People also say that 18 is not a right and the United States declared that 21 is a reasonable age for a minimum drinking age. Lowering the drinking age will give high school and even middle school people easier access to alcohol (ProCon,

Lowering The United States Drinking Age To 18
In the 1980's it was legal for eighteen-year-olds to purchase and consume
alcoholic beverages. In 1984, the United States Government pressured the states to raise
the legal age to twenty-one (Rally). Their reasoning--eighteen-year-olds were too
immature and responsible in their partaking of alcohol. Outlawing the consumption of
alcohol by minors does not prevent underage drinking anymore than posting speed limit
signs prevents speeding! Is

night before they went out drinking. Everybody knows that most teenagers have had a drink of alcohol before their twenty-first birthday. Most teenagers do drink regularly or binge-drink. There is nothing much anybody can do to prevent underage drinking. If a teenager is told they cannot have something, it inclines them to want it even more. Sometimes they will go to extreme lengths to obtain it. In 1984, Congress passed the law stating the legal drinking age in the United States was 21. (Alcoholism Timeline)

before when they went out drinking. Everybody knows that most teenagers have had a drink of alcohol before their 21 birthday. Most teenagers do drink regularly or binge drink. There is nothing much anybody can do to prevent underage drinking. You can tell a teenager or anybody they cannot have something, it inclines them to want it even more and will go to extreme lengths to obtain it. In 1984, Congress passed the law stating the legal drinking age in the United States was 21. (Alcoholism Timeline)

Lowering the Legal Drinking Age From 21 to 18
In the United States the legal drinking age, with a few exceptions, is 21; this should be changed from 21 to the age of 18. This would help high schoolers and college students who generally commit the act of underage drinking anyways to avoid long lasting legal repercussions. This would also remove the excitement that many underage drinkers feel since for many, it would now be legal. This would help to lessen temptation and encourage today’s youth

The legal drinking age is the age which one has to attain to be protected by the law when purchasing or drinking alcohol in the given country. The national minimum drinking age act of 1984 raised the legal drinking age from the previous 18 years to 21 years (Carpenter & Carlos). The enactment of the law saw the United States get into a group of four states in the world where the legal drinking age is above 18 years with the other three countries being Japan, South Korea, and Iceland. In the recent

Why must the United States have an age limit to control a citizen’s right to consume alcohol? Is there a logical reasoning behind these restrictions? During the Prohibition movement in the late 18th and early 19th century, the increase in alcohol related incidents in the United States brought grave and serious concerns to the nation. The consequences that resulted from drinking was damaging the American society and population. As a result, Congress enacted the 21st amendment, where alcohol was not

Drinking Age Lowered
Everyone has had an alcoholic beverage sometime in their life, including kids under the age of 18. Kids will sneak a drink behind their parents back, or when they’re in college they will drink with their friends while there’s no supervision. Drinking age has been a huge concern in the United States for many years. A lot of tragic deaths have occurred due to underage drinking.
When lowering the drinking the age to 18, there will be less tragic accidents in the United States

do people only want to change the drinking age from 21 to 18, when there are other activities that have limit of age such as marriage at 18, driving at 16 and 35 to be a president? Alcohol plays a major role in today society, which becomes a controversial issue among teens. Alcohol is a mind-altering chemical that is potentially more dangerous than any other drug and can be very destructive. For past few years, many people are trying to lower the drinking age without knowing the negative effects

they are in college but also because in the eyes of the United States when a teenager turns eighteen they become a legal adult. With becoming an adult comes many new responsibilities, a person can now vote for the next elected representatives, they can live on their own and pay their own bills; it’s a brand new world for young adults. As a college student, alcohol is a very common occurrence. The minimum legal age to drink in the United States in twenty-one and it has always caused a continuing controversy

Balko, Radley. "Let My Students Drink." Reason. (Feb. 2009). Web. 19 Feb. 2016. John McCardell was a former college president who took his experience dealing with underage drinking and decided to develop an organization called Choose Responsibly. The organization supports lower the legal drinking age. He later developed the Amethyst Initiative to help campuses across the U.S. to join together. In the article, Mr. McCardell gives his reasons for starting the growing movement. The purpose of this article